Pastalaya is what happens when Louisiana cooks jambalaya with pasta instead of rice, and anyone who's made one will tell you the same thing: it owns your afternoon. You brown the sausage in batches. You sweat the onions and peppers down slow so they melt into the base instead of floating in it. The shrimp goes in last, off the heat, or you've ruined it. It's a dish with a guest list, because nobody spends three hours on a Tuesday cooking for one.
This week it's on our menu. Shrimp, chicken sausage, orzo, red onion, peppers, tomatoes, and the aromatics that make the whole thing taste like it simmered all day — because in our kitchen in Hamden, it did. Your part takes about two minutes.
And for a dish this rich in character, the numbers are almost funny: 393 calories, 46 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat in the standard portion. The Protein Plus version runs 465 calories with more shrimp. Full macros for everything, all nine menu weeks: thestrongkitchen.com/lp/menu-nutrition
That afternoon is the real product here. Every week we cook a menu of dishes that would each cost you a serious chunk of an evening, and hand them back as heat-and-eat dinners to doors in Wallingford, Cheshire, Bristol, Stratford, and a hundred other towns.
Pastalaya is on the menu now. Order by Wednesday at midnight and it arrives Sunday or Monday, fresh from Hamden, anywhere in New Haven County, Hartford County, and most of Fairfield County. See your town and delivery day → thestrongkitchen.com/lp/meal-prep-delivery-new-haven-county
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